Chapter 0417

“Get in your places, please,” Nathan called from the bottom of the stage. Bridget hurried to take point beside him. “Are you two ready?”

“Ready,” Nicholas said. He had his script out too.

“Ready,” I echoed. My heart hammered in my chest as I skimmed the first line. This was going to be even worse than I thought.

“Begin!” Nathan called.

I braced myself. Nicholas was set to start off the scene.

His eyes were locked on the script. He didn’t speak right away.

“I said, begin!” Nathan said again.

Nicholas cleared his throat. When he looked up at me, his eyes were hard. “We have to end things between us,” he said.

God, I knew he was acting but the words still speared through me. He was just reading the

script, but my

It was too real. I

I had to.

line but it was also the question in my heart.

hard. “There’s someone else.”

“Who?” I read.

matter who.”

paused, tried to collect myself. Just keep reading. The sooner this was

“Well, I

acting, I reminded myself, again and again. But I couldn’t help thinking that this was eerily close to how the end of our whatever–we–are might end. By nature of the contest, Nicholas would have to marry someone. We already

easily tell me there’s someone else. I almost had to

love him for him not to feel it back was one of my deepest

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name on what we are to each other right now, nor have we fully admitted the extent of our feelings for one another. It felt… safer that

I realized I was

was shattering my heart

not shocking then, as the tears

alarmed, started forward, but I held up my hand. I didn’t want comfort here. How could I ever accept it? We were on stage with the whole of the competition watching, and Nathan. If

to finish the

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